Bone of Contention between Silicon Valley and Washington

... peer system of direct contacts between the users of information networks, as well as an anonymous cryptocurrency commonly referred to as “bitcoin”). It should be emphasized that from the point of view of information technology, the "bitcoin" payment and settlement system is a specific internet protocol based on the CGIProxy systems of the Tor Project. Thus, the instruments for circumventing state censorship commissioned by the U.S. government have laid the grounds for new and effective tools for tax evasion (in other words, for undermining ...